The danger is that these things can be done automated by now. It’s not just governments doing this. It is the private sector, and they sell all of that to the highest bidder. The only way out is either to stop them connecting to the internet or install a free software operating system you control.
And even then the firmware (or a hidden RTOS) can still be able to record and send everything.
We need to seriously fund more things like free, libre and open source (and libre and open hardware) TVs, TV-boxes, TV-sticks, phones, tablets and so on.
The danger is that these things can be done automated by now. It’s not just governments doing this. It is the private sector, and they sell all of that to the highest bidder. The only way out is either to stop them connecting to the internet or install a free software operating system you control.
And even then the firmware (or a hidden RTOS) can still be able to record and send everything.
We need to seriously fund more things like free, libre and open source (and libre and open hardware) TVs, TV-boxes, TV-sticks, phones, tablets and so on.